A woman who lives at the site of the shooting, on Sewall Street, and did not want her name used because she was afraid of her neighbors, said she was coming home from the Stop & Shop when she heard the gunshots.

Three shots were fired. One bullet hit the side of 21 Sewall, one bullet hit by the door, and the other entered into the victim’s lung through his back, a neighbor said. She said she saw eight boys out in front of the house. “They were all friends,” she said.

“One of them lives upstairs,” Anna said, pointing to 21 Sewall St. “They’d been here around two weeks, I think.”

The neighbor said she saw a bullet hole in the kid’s back, just at the bottom of his ribcage on the right side. “He was kind of breathless,” she said.
One man on the street came home and was told his mom heard the shots fired from her house.

The incident is being investigated by Somerville Police Detectives and State Police assigned to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office. Anyone who has
information regarding this incident is urged to contact the Somerville Police at 617- 625-1212.